Tom, In some ways I find it amusing the way this discussion has gone.
You started off with an email saying you have problems finding a revenue stream for your app, but your now giving the impression you won't support alternatives which could give you this revenue stream. If developers, such as yourself, don't support alternative app stores your basically saying Googles Market is good enough for all your needs, and all the time you're doing that Google don't really have a driver to change Market all that quickly. Yes, it's true that alternative markets can't give you the number of potential users you could get through market, but to refuse to even try out options to see what revenue they could generate seems strange to me, after all listing on Market is no guarantee your going to actually sell anything because on Market your app is one amongst tens of thousands all competing for users attention. You can also think of it this way; Google is a business, and so anything they do will need to have a justification. At the moment anyone trying to justify expanding paid apps will probably be met with the counter argument; "Well developers have alternative markets they could use and they choose not to, so it can't be that important", which is quite a strong argument. If developers can't be bothered to spend a few minutes listing and maintaining an app at even one or two market alternatives then why should google believe the developer is going to put the effort in to maintain a quality product on Market? At the end of the day it's your personal choice, and I respect that, but if you don't want to spend the time showing Google there is a demand for a feature by using the alternatives available to you, then I can't see them giving a lot of weight to the request. Al. P.S. The closest we can come to what you want is our service to pull apps from feeds (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/feeds.jsp) -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 8 Sep 2010, at 08:33, Tomáš Hubálek wrote: > Al, > > if you make it simple (one time approval, no uploads, online rejection of > approval if necessary, automated almost real time mirroring from Android > Market), I'll give you approval for all my free apps. > > As you talked about egg and chicken issue, that's the real cause. You need a > lot of good apps and when I'll see that your market gives me extra downloads, > I'll probably spend some time with adapting them to paid version specific for > your market. Until this time it is just one from many for me. Sorry. > > I believe that the same feeling have other developers too. > > Tom > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > We looked at that and found some developers would object to us carrying their > free apps, hence why we don't auto-mirror. Apart from that Market uses closed > protocols so even if we offered the option we'd be running the risk of it > breaking if Google changed the protocol. > > We are looking at an upload URL where devs can submit their username, > password, and app ID, and an APK which will add a new release to AndAppStore. > Do people think anyone would use it? > > Al. > -- > > * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company > number 6741909. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily > those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. > > On 8 Sep 2010, at 08:16, Tomáš Hubálek wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's not just a few minutes of work. Dealing with alternative stores take >> some >> extra time on every new release. >> >> >> I believe that it would very help to your alternative market if you made >> automated mirroring free apps from Android market (after developers's >> approval of course). >> >> There is plenty of alternative markets and I don't want to spend time with >> filling out forms in all of them (they are different, every needs different >> set of information). But I would definitely give approval for copying my >> free apps from Android Market to alternative one (only important thing is >> that it should be always up to date). >> >> Have a good day >> Tom >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), > http://android.hubalek.net, http://blog.hubalek.net/ > http://facebook.com/thubalek, http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek > http://twitter.com/thubalek, http://twitter.com/android_dev_tom > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. 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